The only difference between you and I is that I'm not willing to waste a single second more of my life entertaining professional liars
I feel the same way. Unfortunately, however that seems like a pipe dream because they and just plain old ignorant opinions are everywhere. But in the case I was trying to make to you here this good advice does not have much to do with what I am trying to say. What I was trying to address is HOW we come to group one person as a professional liar and someone else a qualified authority. What I am looking at is my own personal process and in the case of Ivermectin madness my first impulse was my typical unconscious mechanicality to
categorize it all as bullshit and lies. Exposure to what the claims of what others were thinking caused me to pause and question. So:
There was no nugget of wisdom in anything they had to say that was there for me to mine. The gem was all inside me. I learned, relearned, was reminded again of my desire to sleep, to assume the worst of others and to flatter myself as to my own rectitude and superiority. I am reminded of this by anything to which I take offense, that there are unconscious needs that drive me that are hard to see. Any time I am triggered by something I know the problem is not with what triggers, but that that is the effect on me. I am the source, it is not out there. Criticism, judgmentalism is a disease. Whatever triggers it has something to teach you, I believe.You may be convinced they possess some nugget of truth somewhere if only we look hard enough, but I am convinced that we can find thousands of those exact same nuggets elsewhere without getting covered by shit in the process.